Jewish vs. Gentile Political Givers in 2020-2024

Did October 7, 2023 change Jewish minds about whether Wokeness and the Great Replacement are going to be good for the Jews? Evidence from the really big donors.

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:

I’ve been wondering ever since Oct. 7, 2023 whether Jews are changing their minds about wokeness.

That might seem like a fairly world-historical question. But if you aren’t Jewish, well, then, you aren’t supposed to wonder about it because the question presumes that Jews have money, power, and influence in the United States in disproportion to their insignificant couple of percent of the population.

And, of course, because Jews have earned themselves remarkable amounts of money, power, and influence per capita, then it’s imprudent for you to worry them by worrying about it.

Still, it’s hard to understand how America works in the 21st century without thinking hard about what Jews are thinking.

So, did the string of events beginning with the horrific Hamas massacre of Israeli citizens 19 months ago, followed by Israel’s brutal retribution and anti-Israel protests on scores of American college campuses, cause American Jews to have second thoughts about who their real friends are? …

One way to begin to get an answer to these questions is to look at major political contributors by ethnicity, since they put serious money behind their views. …

So, I looked up the top 100 donors in 2024 versus in 2020 and then estimated their ethnicities from online sources.

To make sense of my table, read the whole thing there.